Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Online radio sampler highlights IX

Selections that got my attention tonight:

KBCS (Bellevue, WA)
  • Lady Be Good-Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Duke Dejan (A ragtime feel and a trumpet line that brings to mind "When The Saints Go Marching In.")
  • (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher-Jackie Wilson (The original, fast version of this tune.  Ten years after this was released, Rita Coolidge captured the late '70s pop music sensibility with a somewhat reworked version that was a huge hit.  Both versions warrant airplay.)
KUAT (Tucson, AZ)
  • Willem de Fesch: Recorder Sonata, Op. 8, No. 5 (Oustal Trio) (If the feel of a Bach harpsichord piece appeals to you, this likely will, as well.)
WKZE (Red Hook, NY)
  • Long Hot Summer Days-Sara Watkins (Watkins convincingly portrays the hard-working subject of this John Hartford song.  Filling up barges on the Illinois River is no picnic, apparently.)
  • Eliza Jane-Eliza Gilkyson (I can't help but root for Eliza Jane.  She tries so hard, after all.  With a more positive attitude, she might find happiness sooner.)